X - Was It Supernatural?––––––––
LATE that afternoon Braye returned from New York. He looked weary and exhausted, as if under hard and continuous strain.
Norma and Eve had both been watching for him from different windows and met on the stairs in their sudden rush to meet him in the hall.
It was easily apparent that both girls desired to see him first and tell him the further awful development of the disappearance of Vernie’s body.
“What!” he exclaimed, “more horrors! Wait a minute, till I get off this dust coat.”
Before Eve or Norma could say more, the others, hearing Braye, came trooping to the hall, and all began to talk at once.
“I can’t understand——” and Braye wearily passed his hand across his brow,—“tell me all that happened after I left last evening.”
“Nothing especial,” sai
